From the introduction to Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament (PDF; it’s also published as a book which is how I discovered it): A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory. “We are helping our students become more competitive in an [...]
This is how the emerging internet is described in The Axemaker’s Gift, published in 1995. Interesting sections to me highlighted by me: The new systems can present data to the user in the form of a “web” on which all the information contained in a database is interlinked. For example, a simple chain of web data-links [...]
A great comment from Tom Wolf showed up in my feed reader; left on a quote by Marco Arment on Simon Willison’s blog: Over a decade ago when I started a program to teach senior citizens how to use computers (Windows 95, WordPerfect, and dial-up internet access :), the first day that I had them [...]
From an Ars Technica article entitled YouTube University gets failing grade from prof, students. The original analysis is here Thank You for Smoking move King of California download Juhasz breaks the issues down into a set of what she refers to as “binaries”—tensions between opposites that have to be balanced for proper teaching. Those binaries were: [...]
